Pet Boarding & Daycare Operating Manual — Free Printable SOPs
A complete set of standard operating procedures for a pet boarding and daycare facility — book and intake safely, feed and medicate to instructions, run supervised play, house and monitor, clean to control disease, and handle emergencies. Print them, post them in the kennel, or hand them to a new attendant on day one.
Intake & Care
Book, intake, feed, play, house, release.
Health & Safety
Clean, recognize, handle, evacuate.
Business
Open/close, recover, and train.
What is a pet boarding operating manual?
A boarding and daycare facility runs on safety and consistency: every animal has to be accounted for, supervised, fed and medicated exactly to the owner’s instructions, and protected from escape and disease. An operating manual turns each routine — booking and vaccination, intake, feeding, supervised play, the clean-down, the vet emergency, the headcount at lockup — into a standard operating procedure (SOP): the sequence, the standard, and the why. New attendants reach your standard faster, and the safety habits that protect animals (and staff) become automatic.
This manual is organized into the three areas a facility runs on: intake & care (booking & vaccination, check-in, feeding & medication, play groups, housing, check-out), health & safety (cleaning & disinfection, illness/injury/vet emergency, safe handling & bite prevention, emergency evacuation), and business (open/close, complaints & incidents, onboarding). Every SOP is source-anchored to independent authorities — IBPSA, AVMA, AAHA, The Dog Gurus, Fear Free, and shelter-medicine programs — cited in each printed footer. SOPs describe the operational and business process; every animal-health, medical, medication, vaccination, disease-control, and bite/behavior specific is deferred to the pet’s veterinarian, the owner’s written authorization, the product label, the CDC, and your state/local kennel licensing.